Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frobisher Bay. Soldiers of both nations would also staff a ring of weather stations and radar listening posts all across the continent's bleak Arctic vastness and down the east and west coasts to the U.S. The suggestions sounded simple. But the arguments pro & con were complex...
...This of course is exactly what our philosophy and propaganda aims at. To return to the Land ... to liquidate the racial inferiority complex and breed a healthy, normal, earthbound race of peasants. These Hebrew Tarzans are what we have bargained for. So why am I frightened of them...
Like my colleagues on the Forum, Professor Salvemini and Mr. Dennett, I tried to help students to see a complex reality instead of a few crude over-simplifications. I am sorry that, at least in the case of your reporter, we were less than successful, but I trust that your publication of this letter may help to give your readers a somewhat fairer idea of what was said at the Forum. Karl W. Deutsch, M.I.T...
...mass inferiority complex has developed amongst a large portion of the Radcliffe student body. Only occasionally does a girl venture to raise a timid hand and make a timid statement in a section meeting. Sullenly, she begins to accept her supposed inability to think, but aptitude for studying, as a truism. She gets frightened by women-hating professors and women-scorning students...
...equally dangerous attitude is that of the Radcliffe girl with one of those things every psychiatrist dreams of--a superiority complex to cover up a you-know-what. She stubbornly takes five economics courses in one term to show they're not really "men's courses." Yes, she gets four A's and a B plus. She also becomes head of one committee or another and immediately sets out to rival and defeat the corresponding Harvard committee. She becomes terribly arty, terribly intellectual, terribly unconventional; but is neither as impressive nor as shocking as she would like. In her falseness...